TRANSFORMATION OF PRESCHOOLERS’ ORDINARY NOTIONS

Abstract

It is shown that the organization of educational research with preschool children should be based on their previously formed ordinary notions, gradually transforming them into scientific ones. While teaching it is necessary to prevent the development of preschool children’s distorted perceptions, as well as their belief in “supernatural”. It can be done with the help of teaching them to try to understand the effectiveness of a scientific style of thinking, and with the use of empirical methods of scientific knowledge, allowing not only to comprehend phenomenologically the essence of a process or a phenomenon, but enabling them to “perform” them visually. As a research methodology the author used J. Kelly’s theory of personal constructs, as well as Karl Popper’s ‘principle of falsification’. The experience introduced was tested in the laboratory of enriching the content of education in pre-school educational institutions SEI school № 587 in Moscow.